The cast and crew averaged 14 to 16 hours per day throughout the shooting of the film.
After Stripped to Kill (1987), also directed by Katt Shea, was a hit, producer Roger Corman stuck with the stripper in danger theme and told Shea he wanted to combine that with a gothic castle set he built for another movie and asked her to write a story involving the two. So, Shea and her husband/co-writer Alan Ruben came up with a plot about a vampire targeting a suicidal stripper. Her previous movie was filmed in an actual strip club to save money, but this time Corman gave them the budget to build a set.
Katt Shea said it took a long time to find the right actor to play the vampire. Just as she thought, "God, we're never going to find a vampire," Cyril O'Reilly walked in and auditioned. She said he was the first one who didn't sound like he was doing a stage play or a period piece or something. He just talked like a real person, so she thought, "Okay this is the guy!"
Maria Ford's first role. She was 18. She'd just moved to Los Angeles two weeks before.
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